By 5 p.m., Con Ed reported about 12,677 customers without power in New York City. The highest number of customers in the dark was in Queens with 6,632. There were 3,023 customers without power in the Bronx, 1,395 on Staten Island, 1,617 in Brooklyn and 10 in Manhatthan, according to its website.

As crews work to restore power around the Tri-state, customers in the dark spent the night sweating it out.

Queens resident Eric Brion and his son were so hot in their house, the decided to spend the night in their car with the AC cranked up. Brion says he isn’t happy with how Con Ed has handled the heat wave.

“They should have been prepared, I think they knew it was coming,” said Brion.

This morning, Middle Village, Queens resident Denise Carbone and her children are taking refuge in their air-conditioned car. They say they barely slept through the night.

“We have crews that have been working on 12-hour shifts and other crews that have been ready to quickly respond to outages as they occur to try to minimize the duration of outages,” said Con Ed spokesperson Sara Banda.

Con Ed is also asking customers to conserve energy by not using energy inefficient appliances and to set their thermostats no lower than 78 degrees. Banda said that each degree lowered saves six percent on cooling costs.